Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-11-05
AIden's Manifold CycIOpedia of
 Knowledge and Language.

One of the most extraordinary literary enterprises of the age is the work which bears the above title.
 The specimen pages which the publish CT sends free to any applicant, show the type which is used-a good clear faced Brevier; also the ferm-;' ;'Ideal' for con venience, easy for the eye, handy to hold. The volumes will average about GAO pages thirty of them-the manifold" numbe will not be inconvenient; when you con suit Cyclopedia you are supposed to know what ''title" you are looking for; the lettering on the back of each volume tells you at glance what titles will be found within, so you do not look m the wrong one-and the volumes are so ''handy" you quickly turn to the sought for page.
 There will be several thousand illus trations-no ''more pictures" but every thing of importance that will serve to illustrate.
 The Manifold Cyclopedia is to be much more than 8 Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge;" it will embody also Die tionary of the English Language-includ- ing every word which has any claim to place in the language. How often you have consulted Appleton's or Chambers, or Johnson's Cyclopedia and failed to find the title you were looking for-then con suited Webster's Unabridged and were successful; the word belonged to the Dictionary rather than to the Cyclopedia. | Or YOU have consulted Webster, and | found little more than mere definition of the word--you must go to the Cyclo- pedia for details of knowledge. Or, more probable than either of the foregoing sup positions, you do not own either hrst- class Cyclopedia or first class Dictionary or only one of the two, because of their prohibitory cost, so you consult your imagination and 'go hungry" for lack of the few lines of print that would satisfy you! In the Manifold Cy clopedia you will find a sur vey of all knowledge which is illustrated by the En glish Language-and its cost is within your reach, only 50 cents volume for cloth binding, 65 cents for half mo- rocco!
 In this age of the world, no general Cyclopedia or Dictionary can be in any sense ''originap-each new compilation, if 1t has merit, is based upon the knowl- edge found embodied in all its predeces- sors. ''Knowledge" as set forth i'll books can not be monopolized by ''patent" or "copyright" the form of embodl- ment can be thus covered. The latest discoveries Cor imaginings) of the scien- lists, the latest 'finds" tor frauds) of the archaeologists, the latest theories of the political economists-all are subject to the "sight drafts" of the latest Encyclo peoist. Alden's Manifold Cyclopedla undertakes to combine in the most. con venient and concise (and yet fulD and ec onomical form possible, the results o the scholarshi p of the world, up to the time of it's publication. Availlng itsel most of the labors of it's predecessors who have accomplished the best results, tht Man fold Cyclopedia, draws more largely from Chambers's than from any other O the family of Cyclopedias, and more largely from Stormonth than from any
 other of the family of Dictionaries
 Chambers's is an acknowledged mode for Cyclopedia; but 1t is adapted par ticularly to England rather than to Amer
 ica; Stormonth is acknowledged peer O ) Webster, Worcester, the Imperial. ant
 Murray, as an authority, but without
 peer in the combined qualities of con ciseness, clcarness, and accuracy of learn ing. No authorities, however, are blindl.. followed, but effort is carefully made t. bring all matters to the generally accepte' . standard of the most eminent American rather than foreign, scholarship.
 Editorial talent second to none il America, in experience and skill is en | | gagged in the conduct of the work; tn publishers past experience in Cyclopedi ' making (notably iu The Library of Uni [ versal Knowledge, now known-treble in price as the International Cyclopedia
 is good basis for the pledge he makes t
 his patrons that The Manifold shall b a infe rior to no other Cyclopedia i'll any ( o the important qualities of populS f guide to knowledge. Specimen page V free, or a specimen volume may be ol !. dered and returned if not wanted. Joh A B. Alden, Publisher, 393 Pearl Stree r., New ork